Open-source News

Microsoft Goes Live with Azure Sphere, Its Linux-Powered IoT Security Platform  ADT Magazine

Tiny, Linux-powered STM32MP1 SiP ships with two dev kit options  LinuxGizmos.com

Tiny, Linux-powered STM32MP1 SiP ships with two dev kit options  LinuxGizmos.com

Go 1.14 is now available as the latest version of this popular programming language backed by Google...

Go 1.14 Released - Performance Improvements, Go's Module Support Production-Ready  Phoronix

Phoronix Test Suite 9.4-Vestby is now available as one of our largest updates in recent years for our open-source, cross-platform automated benchmarking framework. Almost wanting to rebrand it as Phoronix Test Suite 10, sticking to conventional versioning the Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 release brings numerous result viewer improvements, a lot of polishing to the PDF result exporting, various Microsoft Windows support improvements, new statistics capabilities, some useful new sub-commands, and much more as the latest quarterly feature release.

Cosmo Communicator – A smartphone that runs Android and Linux  Tech Lapse

As we've been expecting to happen with the Linux EFI code being cleaned up before the introduction of a new architecture, the RISC-V patches have been posted for bringing up UEFI boot support...

UEFI Boot Support Published For RISC-V On Linux  Phoronix

Besides all the usual hardware enablement activities with the usual names by Intel's massive open-source team working on the Linux kernel, one of the more peculiar bring-ups recently has been around the "Intel Gateway SoC" with more work abound for Linux 5.7...

Intel Continues Bring-Up Of New Gateway SoC Architecture On Linux, ComboPHY Driver  Phoronix

IBM, UN and Linux Foundation tackle climate crisis in 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge  TechRepublic

This smartphone allows you to use Linux alongside Android  Gizchina.com

Prominent Linux and macOS game porting firm Feral Interactive looks like it may be dissolving...

Game Porting Firm Feral Interactive's Days Could Be Numbered With Compulsory Strike-Off  Phoronix

Distributions Were For Linux, Not For Kubernetes  Forbes

Firefox Browser On Linux And Mac Gets New Security Technology  Fossbytes

Firefox Browser On Linux And Mac Gets New Security Technology  Fossbytes

The logzero library makes logging as easy as a print statement, which is quite a feat of simplicity. I'm not sure whether logzero took its name to fit in with the series of "zero boilerplate" libraries like pygame-zero, GPIO Zero, and guizero, but it's certainly in that category. It's a Python library that makes logging straightforward.

You can just use its basic logging to stdout the same way you might use print for information and debugging purposes, and it has a smooth learning curve towards more advanced logging, like logging to a file.

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Product management is an interesting career. It's immensely rewarding to be the interface between users, business strategy, engineering, and product design. And it's also a highly lucrative career with increasing demand for ambitious and empathetic practitioners.

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